the Queensberry Rules

the Queensberry Rules

The code of generally accepted rules in the sport of boxing. The mixed martial arts star struggled to keep up with his opponent due to his unfamiliarity with the more restrictive Queensberry Rules.
See also: Rule
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

the Queensberry Rules

standard rules of polite or acceptable behaviour.
The Queensberry Rules are the code of rules which were drawn up in 1867 under the supervision of Sir John Sholto Douglas ( 1844–1900 ), ninth Marquis of Queensberry, to govern the sport of boxing in Great Britain.
See also: Rule
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a sparring partner
  • sparring partner
  • to look at (someone or something)
  • to look at somebody/something
  • on the ropes
  • take a fall
  • starched
  • starchy
  • cut the ice
  • break the ice, to
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WThe stain of antisemitism has ITH the Tory party engaged in a civil war (albeit one tempered by the Queensberry Rules), a competent opposition could expect to spend the summer shoring up a lead in the polls and presenting itself as a government in waiting.
'There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all.
Which sport is governed by the Queensberry Rules? 7.
A century before that in 1870 Tom Allen and Jem Mace fought for the bareknuckle heavyweight championship of the world - a prelude 22 years later to John L Sullivan's showdown with Gentleman Jim Corbett under the Queensberry rules.
Because the rescue effort of Filipino OFWs in Kuwait failed to abide by the Queensberry rules, Philippine Ambassador Renato Villa was served by the Kuwaiti foreign ministry his walking papers.
"I look forward to following the Queensberry rules of boxing.
The book examines the lives of the major pugilists at the time and the era in which the Queensberry Rules were coming into play in the sport.
24; The Queensberry rules came to dominate the sport gradually over the next 25 years; courts in England directed juries to use the Queensberry rules to determine whether a contest was a legitimate fighting match or an unlawful encounter thereby legitimating the principles of Queensberry rules into law.
Which sport is subject to the Queensberry Rules? 9.
With which sport are the Queensberry Rules associated?
"Those warriors who swapped punches on the mountainside became 'civilised' with the introduction of the Queensberry Rules - the work of a Welshman, John Graham Chambers, although published under the name of his patron, the Marquess - and the increased use of gloves.
Anybody who says different is either stupid or wants to do everything by the Queensberry Rules, and if you try to do that you've got problems.
"The rules are just like the Queensberry Rules - gentlemen's rules - we make them up as we go along.
It includes images of Jem Mace and Larry Foley who were keen promoters of gloved fighting under the Queensberry rules during the 1870s and 1880s.
He said: "One of the problems and frustrations that we face is that we in Great Britain play by the Queensberry rules, we do what the EU tells us to do and we are compliant, unlike our partners in the EU who repeatedly break agreements and cheat.